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Preventing version Leakage when using Dokuwiki

As if not updating my blog for months at time wasn’t enough, I also maintain a wiki that gets even less attention 🙁 The software powering the wiki is Dokuwiki – a fantastic wiki software that’s very feature-rich (thanks to a plugin architecture) but very lightweight (everything is maintained in …

A follow-up on Flickr feed privacy

Talk about shooting your mouth off 🙁 A while back I had made a long-ish post about the Recent comments feed on Flickr and how the lack of authentication could allow people to see your non-public photos. Well I recently had posted some photos to my Flickr photostream, that were …

Flickr RSS Feeds do not respect your privacy

On a bit of a RSS trip here aren’t we? 😀 Anyway, this is something I came across a few weeks back and it’s been bugging me ever since. Since everyone likes a stroke (and I’m no exception) – I have subscribed to the feed for comments on my photos …

WordPress build has backdoors built in

WordPress Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2 [via MetaFilter] Apparently, crackers managed to break into a WordPress server and add malicious code to the 2.1.1 build of WordPress that allows for remote PHP execution. This is probably one of the most sophisticated types of security attacks – embedding …